Repertitious has not had nearly the success in entering the language that serendipitous has had, most likely because its PR team isn't nearly as good. The noun form of the latter, serendipity, was made up in the 1750s by the novelist Horace Walpole, based on Serendip {a former name for Sri Lanka}. Repertitious, on the other hand, has its first mention in Thomas Blount's dictionary of 1656. Writers-1, lexicographers-0. Resentient
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